To the Garden we Go...

Okay.  I have had a lousy garden this year; pure and simple.  Overall in terms of harvest, this has been the worst gardening experience of my life.
I planted eight tomato plants, two cherry and the rest regular size.  I may have picked six tomatoes from them all.  Squirrels got to some of them, but in talking to others, very few people have had a good tomato year.  Oddly enough though, I had one volunteer tomato plant come up from a strawberry that I planted.  It is a yellow cherry tomato plant pictured above.  We are now picking some every day.
In other pathetic garden news, I picked two cucumbers from two plants before they shriveled up and died.  I do have two ‘Black Diamond’ watermelons on the vine that are a good size and should be ready to pick any day.  I had the best looking pole beans (Kentucky Wonder) I have ever grown, but not one bean on them.  Of the dozen or so okra plants, I have harvested two okra (compared with two years ago, when we were harvesting about twenty ever day).  I harvest one gourd before the vines died.
My peppers are the one faithful vegetable, as I have six varieties, mainly for winter soups that I harvest about every three days.  I have harvested two baggies full.  I guess this year teaches the truth that we can plant, and we can water, but God makes it grow, or in my case, doesn’t.